Bug#919467: steam: data loss when switching from Valve's steam package

[Michael Gilbert]

control: tag -1 - patch pending

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 6:33 AM Simon McVittie wrote:
> This is basically my earlier patch from #916303, except that the default
> is swapped: it will continue to use ~/.steam as the $STEAMDIR for new
> installations, and only use ~/.local/share/Steam (or any other $STEAMDIR)
> if that was already set up. This reduces the solution to #916303 to
> "swap the default".

I'm don't yet see what use case would require more than one steam
installations per user, so I don't see the value of the links Valve
dumps in ~/.steam.

I am not yet on board with moving the steam dir to XDG_DATA_HOME.
These are concerns that have already been mentioned.  One, the user
can seem to break their installation by changing the value of
XDG_DATA_HOME.  Second, this will cause clutter to both ~ and
XDG_DATA_HOME.  Right now the clutter is at least self contained to ~.

The two viable solutions I see are.  One, use a debian specific dir in
~/.steam.  Two, Valve moves completely to XDG_DATA_HOME.

Best wishes,
Mike